Brett Vogelsinger has been teaching English language arts for 20 years and currently teaches ninth-grade students at Holicong Middle School in Bucks County, PA. Brett recently published Poetry Pauses: Teaching With Poems to Elevate Student Writing in All Genres with Corwin Press. He is a regular contributor at the Moving Writers blog (www.movingwriters.org) and has written about teaching and learning for Edutopia, NCTE Verse, and The New York Times Learning Network. When not teaching, grading, or writing about such things, you will likely find him spending time with his family, his garden, or his Jenga tower of books he plans to read. You can find him on Twitter @theVogelman or at his website, www.brettvogelsinger.com.